"Amy Catanzano offers us a poetic vision of multiple orders and multiple forms, of a fluid time set loose from linearity and an open space that is motile and multidimensional. The work exists at once in a future-past and in a variety of temporal modes. At one moment the scale is intimate, at another infinite. She interrogates our means of observation and measurement (the telescope, the ice-core), our mappings, our cosmic calculations, our assumptions about cause and effect. In the background, there is a war being fought, though which of many wars, cultural, scientific, military, we are not told. In a time of displacement such as ours, she seems to say, in place of universals we must imagine multiversals, in place of the fixed, the metamorphic. As much as the frame may be cosmic (micro- or macro), it is important to remember that the work serves the vital questions of the here-and-now, the flowering of the world, the corrosiveness of violence, the primacy of desire, the necessity of wonder. Multiversal represents an effort to see things as they are through an act of poetic reimagining, that is, to see variously within the folds and fields of the actual, where the physis, or life force, resides." -Michael Palmer

"Amy Catanzano's Multiversal is a complex, shimmering, meteroric/meteoric phenomenon, tended and tucked with seismic tremor, quantum folds, solar wingbeats, traversing all manner of particulars from blooming lotuses to Mandelbrot sunrises, from deep space to all-ocean worlds and quirky thorn-opals. What mischievous orbits, what jeweled delight: 'everything's a little brighter beyond the parameters.' The mind/poetry of this book is wondrous, strange, a polyvalent stimulant. I didn't think poetry could ever again be so beautiful. 'Between the eye and its rock star fractal/Straight into the future!" -Anne Waldman